The Communist Manifesto, as this work is commonly known, was published in 1848, and shortly after, in 1849, Marx was expelled from Belgium. Inspired by his ideas, socialists in England held a conference and formed the Communist League, and in 1847 at a Central Committee meeting in London, the organization asked Marx and Engels to write Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei (Manifesto of the Communist Party). Marx couldn’t find a willing publisher, however, and The German Ideology - along with Theses on Feuerbach, which was also written during this time - were not published until after his death.Īt the beginning of 1846, Marx founded a Communist Correspondence Committee in an attempt to link socialists from around Europe. While there, he wrote The German Ideology, in which he first developed his theory on historical materialism.

In Brussels, Marx was introduced to socialism by Moses Hess, and finally broke off from the philosophy of the Young Hegelians completely. Later that year, Marx moved to Belgium after being expelled from France while writing for another radical newspaper, Vorwärts!, which had strong ties to an organization that would later become the Communist League. The result of Marx and Engels’s first collaboration was published in 1845 as The Holy Family. Together, the two began writing a criticism of the philosophy of Bruno Bauer, a Young Hegelian and former friend of Marx’s. Only a single issue was published before philosophical differences between Marx and Ruge resulted in its demise, but in August of 1844, the journal brought Marx together with a contributor, Friedrich Engels, who would become his collaborator and lifelong friend.

There, along with Arnold Ruge, Marx founded a political journal titled Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher (German-French Annals). Paris was the political heart of Europe in 1843. Three months later, in June, he finally married Jenny von Westphalen, and in October, they moved to Paris. Just one year later, the government ordered the newspaper’s suppression, effective April 1, 1843. He began to work as a journalist, and in 1842, he became the editor of Rheinische Zeitung, a liberal newspaper in Cologne.

He received his doctorate from the University of Jena in 1841, but his radical politics prevented him from procuring a teaching position.

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